General Information

Announcements

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Per-Document "Summary of Changes"

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The design of the Core dialect has not changed significantly since the previous Working Draft. The grammar, XML Schema, and definitions of safeness have been re-articulated, and other minor corrections have been made.

The changes since the previous version (which was also a "last call" draft) are largely editorial; see the changelog for details. Most of the changes to RIF during this time have been to DTB and to the other dialects.

Since the previously published draft of this document, it has been extended to include aggregate functions and modules. In addition, a number of small problems have been fixed and clarifications added.

Since the previous Working Draft, numerous editorial fixes and improvements have been made, along with minor changes to the language design.

Announcements of the Round

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For W3C News

The Rule Interchange Format (RIF) Working Group has published six Last Call Working Drafts. Together, they allow systems using a variety of rule languages and rule-based technologies to interoperate with each other and with Semantic Web technologies.

Three of the drafts define XML formats with formal semantics for storing and transmitting rules: